I played this wonderful interpretation of the Keith Jarrett on instrument Yamaha CP5 by ear. Follow this link: watch?v=VJTJOFCsO8k&feature=channel_video_title
Very tight and controlled. I prefer Bill Evans, more relaxed and fluid. Bill is more harmonically interesting and a more relaxed yet tone. This guy has too much tension in his playing, although he does get a very singing tone, but it it also has some brittleness.
@orqsilva you should work as a critic for the daily mail. u got the bull shit and that aint no compliment. if ur talking harmony this is way more advanced. i love bill too but ur an idiot trying 2 compare
It almost sounds like if Erik Satie if he would have written this. I am always amazed At Jarrett's fine line of jazz/classical elements to his playing. He is one of the few that will be remembered 100, 200, 300 years from now.
this version is of an unique depth..everything that Keith Jarrett test in his soul it has been express....I adore the harmony that changes continuously slightly with the use of half-steps and different tones..this remembers so much the style to compose from "watchmaker" of Ravel...
I heard a version of " blue gardenia " played by beegie adair but cannot seem to locate it anywhere. does anyone have it for posting ? its an awesome cut !
This work is breathtaking. Keith is channeling the same spiritual feeling that Gershwin had through his own experience. The piano isn't the instrument playing the music. Keith's body is. The piano is a convenient extension for his hands and the hands are a convenient extension of his soul. This is pure movement! I have credentials to stand behind my assessment. This is genius.
This work is breathtaking. Keith is channeling the same spiritual feeling that Gershwin had through his own experience. The piano isn't the instrument playing the music. Keith's body is. The piano is a convenient extension for his hands and the hands are a convenient extension of his soul. This is pure movement! I have credentials to stand behind my assessment. This is genius.
@quesapa b/c some people just dont fckkng get it, u know>? u know>? this sublime beauty. the sorrow of the human condition. this. & then to have it so exquisitely expressed, for US, by such a one as keith.....
have compassion, i try to, for those who cant reach into their own souls, & accept the truth of such everyday suffering, probly b/c they cant face their own. my meager humble opinion. if u dont mind.
@dontacmaiboll Some will say we shouldn't compare artists' interpretations and I sometimes agree. However, Evans remains faithful to Gershwin's melody and harmonic foundations while Jarrett ignores the harmony and transforms the tune into something different and minimalist. So, here, the comparison is fair. Evans interprets Gershwin's tune his own way (and beautifully). Jarrett distorts and destroys it. That's what I've been trying to say. Thanks for the opportunity.
@JHJennings Jazz - unlike classical and rock music - is a performer's art form, not a composer's. One wouldn't expect someone like Thelonious Monk to play a standard the same way Ahmad Jamal or McCoy Tyner would play it. Sadly, the popular understanding of jazz today is as a composer's art form. I can't stand to hear journalists refer to jazz players "covering" other tunes. A jazz musician would never think to use such a term, because when they perform a tune, it becomes theirs.
@JHJennings I don't know about the distorting part, but it's not actually that interesting a performance. He's certainly better to listen to than watch, because the affect that he's cultivated is almost unbearable here. Old stuff like Shades of Jazz is much better Jarrett, although that's not a solo example.
I'm hearing it AND supposedly seeing it, but don't believe it. Such power in the execution of it, that it's unbelievable...and yet, with sensitivty and grace!
@BetNoire The Gershwin song is one of the greatest ever written. Keith Jarrett, who has done very nice work on other things fails miserably here. He should withdraw his attempt. It's not art. It's junk.
@JHJennings Like I said, I get that you don't like this version, by now we all do. I don't think its as good as the original or even other vocal versions I've heard either, but you don't see me being such a blow hard about it. Just let it go
@JHJennings You're 44 years old man, stop acting like such a fucking petulant child, "That doesn't deserve a reply"? Jesus Christ, are you autistic or something? Grow up and stop trolling youtube videos, don't you have a job to go to, a family to take care of, a life to live, instead of being being a baby over a jazz video on the internet? This song is junk and so are you, human trash.
You're an idiot! As a composer, I can simply state that if you don't care for spontaneous composition such as Keith Jarrett displays, just say that and let the rest of us appreciate the sheer genius of one of the greatest musicians of our age. What are YOUR contributions to the art?
I thought it was nice. Nothing special, but I'm sure it fit well in the program. I love music as much as the next guy, but let's face it, it's not important enough to argue over. Unless someone says "I like today's pop country." Only then do you have the right to punch them in the face. Even if this is America. But I jest.
Despite the spirited replies, I repeat that Jarrett doesn't meet my standard of taste in jazz with this destructive "arrangement". Because he seems to be profoundly and emotionally involved doesn't mean he is or that he can communicate any of that to us. This is a dry, barren, unimaginative, piece of trash that some will exult because it has Jarrett's name on it. Sorry, that doesn't work for me. I'm tired of would-be artists who excuse bad work by calling it "jazz". It's junk!
@JHJennings take it easy,mate. don´t go straight for the jugular of the ones who find the piece touching.I am not convinced if Jarret´s interpretation was meant to meet anyone´s jazz standards anyways.He obviously made it his own so comparisons are just out of place,I guess.
@JHJennings but yes, it looks somehow riddiculous how elated he grows during the performance. one has that weird impression of him cumming unexpectedly.
@JHJennings I considered your point of view but I have to disagree, emphatically, with you. Of course I am not here to try and convince you that you're opinion is invalid because music tends to be subjective, which lends to the beauty and brilliance of it. But, and to be honest I prefer Bill Evans's version of it on the 1961 Village Vangaurd recordings, regardless, it seems a gross error to call this junk especially because I do consider this art, maybe not the best, maybe not the most...
JHJennings is such a fucking hypocrite. On the one hand you claim to love jazz and yet you critisise Jarrett for taking a melody, making it his own, and interpreting the harmonies in his own way.Did it not occur to you that the whole basis of jazz, particularly with standards playing, revolves around interpretation. So many of these tunes originally were written with extremely simple melodies and harmony and it is often this interpretation which transforms them in to masterpieces. Jarrett is god
@beangorge I suppose it's a matter of opinion. If you like it, that's okay but you appreciate less than I do the depth of harmony that Gershwin used against the near absence of harmony used by Jarrett. Some of us feel harmony is of extreme importance. Jarrett doesn't, at least, not here. I think he does damage to Gershwin's song. Damage means the result is NOT worth my time. You don't agree. Okay! So far, this country is free, when it comes to opinions. Jazz is many things to many people.
I have to go with Jennings taste on this one. I did not like it as much as I like some of Jarrett's other work. I liked Bill Evans' changes much more on this tune. In the beginning, Jarrett takes a completely diatonic approach, staying in the same key. I miss the secondary dominant chord right off the bat.
But that is how he interpreted the tune at that moment. That's jazz. That is where Jennings took a left turn. And Albuquerque is nowhere to be found... :)
God forbid JHJennings ever hears about something called "arranging". It's when people take a popular song and change it up a little bit to make their own version. I know, MINDBLOWING, right?
@gnulinger Ah, I see where you're coming from! If we allow ourselves to be blinded by past successes and acclaim then KJ can NEVER do a lousy job! Did you listen to this junk? I'm not denying that he hAS been capable of great things. I'm saying THIS is junk, whether it's by Jarrett or by any great musician you can name. Charisma is NOT ART! Junk is not art! This is junk! Listen to it again!
@gnulinger has nothing to do with like/dislike. Jarrett disrespected a genius with his own primitive BS and stole the melody in the process. It's junk and far removed from "genius". His silly attempts to act like it has some sort of deep meaning are an insult to ALL artists, not just George Gershwin. I love jazz and great new inventions that celebrate the genius of others. This isn't it. I am continually annoyed at people like Jarrett when they do this.
I don't agree! This is a kind of theft and I refuse to appreciate it. Gershwin wrote his melody and delivered it with his own lush harmonies. Jarrett TAKES the melody, makes it his own and ignores any semblance of Gershwin's harmony. Jarrett's replacement harmony is POOR, NOTHING. It's not great, it's not jazz, it's not even adequate. It's junk! This is NOT art. This is robbery.. I resent it.!
@JHJennings If Gershwin is still alive he would be amazed in this recording.There's something that you lack being a musician, its called "perception".Music legends such as Gershwin has it and you dont.But dont worry someday you'll realize how great this recording is :-P
I don't agree. This is a kind of theft and I won't appreciate it. Gershwin built a song from a stark melody but also added lush jazz harmonies that set the song into the American landscape. Jarrett strips out the harmony, adds his own barren and ill-fitted intervals and calls it art. It's NOT art. It's NOT jazz. It's junk!
@maccbetto to the depth and breadth and height the soul can reach (to borrow from a famous poetess). When I watch this, time has to stop, the cares of the day have to be parked and all my power to focus has to be on the moment. I must because, you see, I am spending a few moments with a musical genius of unfathomable proportions. One must be quiet ..... and just listen to these heavenly sounds.
Here are the true music lovers, I just heard one person coughing in the audience ; Sviatoslav Richter and other classicals would have greatly appreciated being listened that well ! Damn lucky jazz players.
It's so beautifull to see all his emotions while he's playing.. his love and hate for the piano.. he truly embodies his music. It can't get anymore real than this for me. An ode to what man is capable doing.. not only musically but spiritually as well..
...Other excellent pianists are almost rigid - Bill Evans used to keep his head down all the time. To suggest that all these other musicians somehow lack something Jarrett has because they don't respond physically like he does - because he can't control his emotional responses to the music - is ridiculous. The mannerisms are at best unneccesary and at worst make him very difficult to listen to, especially on some of the Standards vol 1 & 2 tracks. It's a shame because he's otherwise fantastic!
It's unfortunate for you that you let Keith's mannerisms get in the way-his breadth of musical knowledge and feel for it all in the moment is second to none. If you don't like it great-but don't waste your breath judging it with empty phrases like 'at best unnecessary'. Try a dose of humility-read his biography and see him live. You'll probably think differently.
@sdluthier I'm actually quite a big fan of Jarrett - did you read both my posts? I just don't think that the odd noises add anything (the dancing I can put up with). I'm just objecting to the people suggesting that his mannerisms are evidence of some deep musical intuition lacking in all the pianists who don't behave like that. Are you suggesting that less eccentric pianists e.g. Evans are inferior because they don't/didn't react as KJ does?
@eAcetaldehyd I agree that there is what one hears (simply love Jarrett's music-making!) and what one sees (I have an easier time enjoying it when I'm not watching), and that people pay too much attention to what they see - it's the reason some call Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's play "unfeeling", "emotionally detached" or "cold", when in reality, his playing could be frighteningly mechanical one day, and white-hot the next, only that his movements (and his behavior) were invariably economical.
@eAcetaldehyd I'm sure KJ is misunderstood if we think he "can't control his emotional responses to the music". His bodylanguage may seem ridiculous to somebody, but it's nothing he would like to stop it if he could. I think it's a kind of "kamikaze"-mentality, which means to give himself totally to the music. In opposite to you I love to see this.
Re: the mannerisms, he's actually pretty well behaved here compared to elsewhere. At least he's quiet here!
I don't think his actions are contrived or deliberate, but similarly I don't think they're caused by any kind of superior "feel" for the music or other such thing. I know of no other pianist (or any other musician for that matter) in any genre who goes to such extremes - Oscar Peterson and Glenn Gould occasionally made noises but nothing on KJ's level...
I adored Bill Evans and have to agree with one of the other commentators that Keith seems to have eclipsed him in at least some ways. I can't think of one artist without thinking of the other, however. I love them both! This is one of Keith's best.
And I agree that the Jarrett "sounds effects" are supremely vexing. Just curious as to the veracity of the rumor that the German producer of that album, during the studio recording, chained Jarrett to the piano bench by the waist, and put in a locking ball gag on his mouth. LOL!!!
Thanks for replying, Rockintetster my man. I didn't mean to compare: as a jazz lover, I enjoy and admire both. And you are right in saying that Jarrett's technical proficiency has surpassed Evans', who died too early. In addition, Jarrett's lyrical proficiency is unequalled; one only has to listen to "The Melody At Night, With You" (ECM, 1999) to know this. That album mercifully contains no grunts and groans, and is an example of Jarrett at his lyrical best.
Rockintetster, you are so spot-on. But there's no gainsaying that Jarett is a great talent. However, Evans is the prime source of all who came after, whether they admit it or not.
No denying the fact the Evans is absolutely the most influential jazz pianist- probably of all time. I feel the at this point in his career, Jaret has long surpassed Evans's technical abilities and repertoire. Evans never had the guts to record all of the classical music that Jarrett has- Evans died too young! I just wish Jarrett would shut the F*** up once in a while- he's so damned annoying! URRRRRGH!
Jarrett is a brilliant pianist. He's a brilliant improviser. All musicians "feel" and "animate" their music. Jarrett does it on a level, which becomes irritating, offensive and downright ugly after a while. He has ruined many of his live shows and recordings with his "vocal accompaniment" I get so much more satisfaction listening to Bill Evans than this guy, even though Jarrett is easily four times the pianist Evans ever was.
Keith is not contrived... he is real and driven by his spirit. Let that criticism go and you have found a way to listen to one of the greatest improvisers of our time.
Since when has it been news that Keith Jarrett looks ridiculous when he plays.... ever seen him with Miles at Isle of Wight?.. fucking hilarious. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just how he does things, and the moment people out there post a solo like this sitting down is when I'll let them judge Keith Jarrett's "antics".
I can't help but cringe when he stands up at 2.52. It's painfully contrived. There are many great musicians who did not give in to pretentious and affected display - Chopin and Rachmaninov being prime examples. I don't think anyone can claim that these two lacked 'intensity' or did not fully understand the music they played.
EVERYONE feels the music different ! I personaly dont understand how can someone criticise Keith Jarrett ....you certantly did not got the point of music ...sorry
If you don't understand how, then you're not looking at him. Whether you mind it or not is a different matter, as it happens completely unrelated to whether or not you get 'the point of the music' as you so pretentiously put it.
@corcov you know, I had the same problem... but ... Keith Jarrett is, like all great artist, a unit, one piece of art. And sometimes you have just to get used to it... I really feel with him... after watching Tokyo Solo and stuff...
I respectfully but firmly re-iterate my point about artistic intensity and caricature. The antics are a distraction, and I have a suspicion that they are more than a little contrived - like Liberace's sequins, fine pianist though he was.
The claims here that such displays are somehow evidence of particular talent are mystifying.
I think I'd also find his antics a distraction if I was watching him live, but I honestly don't think they're contrived. Possibly, he moves in order to aid the music (as opposed to the music leading him) but regardless, it is sublime. It's not as if it's shallow music and he's trying to distract us. Surely, when your art is of that kind of quality, that justifies any strange behaviour.
Also, I find that listening to his solo work especially, like his recording of "Starbright", there is incredible tension in there. You can almost feel emotion pulling at it, as if it's dying to break free, and he doesn't let it and the effect is very powerful. He's so concentrated. Listen as deep as you can, the music is so precise. I think if I could play like that, I'd probably find myself moving like he does.
Dude, he's feeling the music! Great musicians can't help but move, it's when you know that what you're playing is coming from inside you, it's something that makes you show where the music is coming from, in today's music it's so hard to find someone who shows they feel it. Any well-trained musician can sit at a piano and play a symphony to perfection... but it takes a genius to be able to not only play that music but feel it... through their heart and and in their bones, it's not made, its born
Jarrett is doing nothing new here he has always played with the same intensity, It's probably what makes him stand out amongst the crowd. If you are uncomfortable with it for whatever reason looking at him play, just listen to him and apprieciate the brilliance
you probably have never improvised. If you allow the music to come through to you, it's impossible not to make a sound, when the music comes through you.
I don't think any of Keith Jarrett's performances cross a line into "caricature." Watch his documentary, he is a genuinely and naturally intense person. If I had to watch anyone's performance on piano, it would be his. He is a beautiful musician.
This is the only version of this song that I've heard that does justice to the emotion. It is one of the most powerful songs I know and yet you always hear it as some sort of jazz/lounge thing. Read the lyrics. You can't play this without it coming from the earth, and this performance, aside from being musically flawless (the harmony blows my mind) is an example of just that.
Bravo!
Juulilili 2 weeks ago
nice.
shrlchovan 2 months ago in playlist Keith Jarrett
I played this wonderful interpretation of the Keith Jarrett on instrument Yamaha CP5 by ear. Follow this link: watch?v=VJTJOFCsO8k&feature=channel_video_title
Have a nice listening :-)
Vassagus78 3 months ago
Keith my ass
ekstasin 4 months ago
chuck norris of jazz .. tais toi "idiot bête". quand on ne connait pas la musique, on ferme sa gueule.
ugofrai 4 months ago
Keith Jarrett's Porgy is more than just Jazz
jimmyluvbuz 5 months ago
Keith Jarrett's perfection! Wow Major influence in my playing.
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vbutts 6 months ago
Keith is soulful and swings.
kathleenbenner1 6 months ago
Ok! Why don't you all stop trying to be so smart! Keith Jarrett is one of a kind. Hi is one with his instrument.
samlamamma 7 months ago
Very tight and controlled. I prefer Bill Evans, more relaxed and fluid. Bill is more harmonically interesting and a more relaxed yet tone. This guy has too much tension in his playing, although he does get a very singing tone, but it it also has some brittleness.
orqsilva 7 months ago
@orqsilva you should work as a critic for the daily mail. u got the bull shit and that aint no compliment. if ur talking harmony this is way more advanced. i love bill too but ur an idiot trying 2 compare
tellitlikeitisalways 7 months ago
A ridiculous comment dude.
acrpt 6 months ago
lovely rendition
inflinc 7 months ago
It almost sounds like if Erik Satie if he would have written this. I am always amazed At Jarrett's fine line of jazz/classical elements to his playing. He is one of the few that will be remembered 100, 200, 300 years from now.
twcal 8 months ago
this version is of an unique depth..everything that Keith Jarrett test in his soul it has been express....I adore the harmony that changes continuously slightly with the use of half-steps and different tones..this remembers so much the style to compose from "watchmaker" of Ravel...
AlessandroFortarel 9 months ago
This man is an ARTISTE!
ManagerGuy1 9 months ago
Raw emotion that pulls at the heartstrings. A true genius.
joshmc4 9 months ago 2
@khantko
lol. what a funny comment!
maria48ism 9 months ago
The work on intervals is so perfectly done !!
Damn you Keith!! :D
NeilCasual 9 months ago
no i love you this the best I have ever subscribed to
TheDoctaDee 9 months ago
verry nice for relax the mind
536767676533766 10 months ago
I heard a version of " blue gardenia " played by beegie adair but cannot seem to locate it anywhere. does anyone have it for posting ? its an awesome cut !
ivorystroker 11 months ago
This is just sublime. His touch on the piano is one of the most sensitive in jazz.
HotRosin 11 months ago 2
@HotRosin i couldnt live, sometimes, really, without his Koln concert.
magdaszabo 10 months ago 4
@magdaszabo You said it. Me too.
Prokifiev 5 months ago
hello
XdefinitecodeX 11 months ago
Wow!!!!!!!!!! And I thought I could Play this piece. Keith is awesome on this........
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This work is breathtaking. Keith is channeling the same spiritual feeling that Gershwin had through his own experience. The piano isn't the instrument playing the music. Keith's body is. The piano is a convenient extension for his hands and the hands are a convenient extension of his soul. This is pure movement! I have credentials to stand behind my assessment. This is genius.
grandpepere 1 year ago
This work is breathtaking. Keith is channeling the same spiritual feeling that Gershwin had through his own experience. The piano isn't the instrument playing the music. Keith's body is. The piano is a convenient extension for his hands and the hands are a convenient extension of his soul. This is pure movement! I have credentials to stand behind my assessment. This is genius.
grandpepere 1 year ago 13
I wonder why this video has negative votes ...
quesapa 1 year ago
@quesapa because some people have no taste. Keith is a freakin' genius, truly.
guyfidelity 1 year ago 2
@quesapa
magdaszabo 10 months ago
@quesapa b/c some people just dont fckkng get it, u know>? u know>? this sublime beauty. the sorrow of the human condition. this. & then to have it so exquisitely expressed, for US, by such a one as keith.....
have compassion, i try to, for those who cant reach into their own souls, & accept the truth of such everyday suffering, probly b/c they cant face their own. my meager humble opinion. if u dont mind.
magdaszabo 10 months ago
gershwin was a genius
litlewing 1 year ago
The Chuck Norris of Jazz
lotsarain 1 year ago 74
@lotsarain ahahah when I read your comment I couldn't stop to laugh!! great comment!!
TheStormFinder 3 months ago
Poor arrangement that ignores the essence of Gershwin's classic.
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings i've uploaded on my channel the Bill Evans version. Listen to it.
dontacmaiboll 1 year ago
@dontacmaiboll Some will say we shouldn't compare artists' interpretations and I sometimes agree. However, Evans remains faithful to Gershwin's melody and harmonic foundations while Jarrett ignores the harmony and transforms the tune into something different and minimalist. So, here, the comparison is fair. Evans interprets Gershwin's tune his own way (and beautifully). Jarrett distorts and destroys it. That's what I've been trying to say. Thanks for the opportunity.
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings but doesn't it become more about the musician than the original tune? i think this version is amazing
disctheory 1 year ago
@disctheory The tune originated with Gershwin's brain. The composer is always FIRST. We musicians are messengers. Some of us deliver.
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings Jazz - unlike classical and rock music - is a performer's art form, not a composer's. One wouldn't expect someone like Thelonious Monk to play a standard the same way Ahmad Jamal or McCoy Tyner would play it. Sadly, the popular understanding of jazz today is as a composer's art form. I can't stand to hear journalists refer to jazz players "covering" other tunes. A jazz musician would never think to use such a term, because when they perform a tune, it becomes theirs.
Beck19781 1 year ago 5
@Beck19781 You're right! Jarrett distorts and destroys Gershwin's tune. The atrocious result is all his. It's certainly not Gershwin.
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings I don't know about the distorting part, but it's not actually that interesting a performance. He's certainly better to listen to than watch, because the affect that he's cultivated is almost unbearable here. Old stuff like Shades of Jazz is much better Jarrett, although that's not a solo example.
lipsbach 1 year ago
That man reaches the top for good taste.
silviopoesia 1 year ago
Keith Jarrett has no cells of bones. He is 100% made of music.
jorgecandeias 1 year ago
@jorgecandeias Nah, more like 130%. At least.
Vayshen 1 year ago
i dedicate this to bill evans keith shuld do it to
litlewing 1 year ago
I'm hearing it AND supposedly seeing it, but don't believe it. Such power in the execution of it, that it's unbelievable...and yet, with sensitivty and grace!
Remarkable.
mwc1954 1 year ago
Brilliant....Just Brilliant.
jaybou263 1 year ago
@SuperBadger49 This discussion is beyond you.
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings Grow up man, we get that you don't like the song. Leave it at that and let it be.
BetNoire 1 year ago
@BetNoire The Gershwin song is one of the greatest ever written. Keith Jarrett, who has done very nice work on other things fails miserably here. He should withdraw his attempt. It's not art. It's junk.
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings Like I said, I get that you don't like this version, by now we all do. I don't think its as good as the original or even other vocal versions I've heard either, but you don't see me being such a blow hard about it. Just let it go
BetNoire 1 year ago
@BetNoire That doesn't deserve a reply. This is junk, as I said before.
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings You're 44 years old man, stop acting like such a fucking petulant child, "That doesn't deserve a reply"? Jesus Christ, are you autistic or something? Grow up and stop trolling youtube videos, don't you have a job to go to, a family to take care of, a life to live, instead of being being a baby over a jazz video on the internet? This song is junk and so are you, human trash.
BetNoire 1 year ago
@BetNoire Feel better?
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings Much so, enjoy your life.
BetNoire 1 year ago
@JHJennings
You're an idiot! As a composer, I can simply state that if you don't care for spontaneous composition such as Keith Jarrett displays, just say that and let the rest of us appreciate the sheer genius of one of the greatest musicians of our age. What are YOUR contributions to the art?
rmac1042 1 year ago 2
I thought it was nice. Nothing special, but I'm sure it fit well in the program. I love music as much as the next guy, but let's face it, it's not important enough to argue over. Unless someone says "I like today's pop country." Only then do you have the right to punch them in the face. Even if this is America. But I jest.
mbr426 1 year ago
Despite the spirited replies, I repeat that Jarrett doesn't meet my standard of taste in jazz with this destructive "arrangement". Because he seems to be profoundly and emotionally involved doesn't mean he is or that he can communicate any of that to us. This is a dry, barren, unimaginative, piece of trash that some will exult because it has Jarrett's name on it. Sorry, that doesn't work for me. I'm tired of would-be artists who excuse bad work by calling it "jazz". It's junk!
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings take it easy,mate. don´t go straight for the jugular of the ones who find the piece touching.I am not convinced if Jarret´s interpretation was meant to meet anyone´s jazz standards anyways.He obviously made it his own so comparisons are just out of place,I guess.
forgetthesavageries 1 year ago
@forgetthesavageries Sorry, Jarrett is guilty of trashing a sacred piece of art. It's destructive and unacceptable to those who care.
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings This comment is pure bullshit
FrancescoGuardi 1 year ago
@FrancescoGuardi Of course, by "this comment" you refer to your own...
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings but yes, it looks somehow riddiculous how elated he grows during the performance. one has that weird impression of him cumming unexpectedly.
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@JHJennings I considered your point of view but I have to disagree, emphatically, with you. Of course I am not here to try and convince you that you're opinion is invalid because music tends to be subjective, which lends to the beauty and brilliance of it. But, and to be honest I prefer Bill Evans's version of it on the 1961 Village Vangaurd recordings, regardless, it seems a gross error to call this junk especially because I do consider this art, maybe not the best, maybe not the most...
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conradyeatisclark 1 year ago
@JHJennings I want to hear some of your "not destructive" "arrangements"....if you got any.....
cssacanell 1 year ago
JHJennings is such a fucking hypocrite. On the one hand you claim to love jazz and yet you critisise Jarrett for taking a melody, making it his own, and interpreting the harmonies in his own way.Did it not occur to you that the whole basis of jazz, particularly with standards playing, revolves around interpretation. So many of these tunes originally were written with extremely simple melodies and harmony and it is often this interpretation which transforms them in to masterpieces. Jarrett is god
beangorge 1 year ago
@beangorge I suppose it's a matter of opinion. If you like it, that's okay but you appreciate less than I do the depth of harmony that Gershwin used against the near absence of harmony used by Jarrett. Some of us feel harmony is of extreme importance. Jarrett doesn't, at least, not here. I think he does damage to Gershwin's song. Damage means the result is NOT worth my time. You don't agree. Okay! So far, this country is free, when it comes to opinions. Jazz is many things to many people.
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JHJennings 1 year ago
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JHJennings 1 year ago
Nothing to listen here...
dontacmaiboll 1 year ago
I have to go with Jennings taste on this one. I did not like it as much as I like some of Jarrett's other work. I liked Bill Evans' changes much more on this tune. In the beginning, Jarrett takes a completely diatonic approach, staying in the same key. I miss the secondary dominant chord right off the bat.
But that is how he interpreted the tune at that moment. That's jazz. That is where Jennings took a left turn. And Albuquerque is nowhere to be found... :)
MelodiusThud 1 year ago
God forbid JHJennings ever hears about something called "arranging". It's when people take a popular song and change it up a little bit to make their own version. I know, MINDBLOWING, right?
paperbackwriter992 1 year ago
@gnulinger Ah, I see where you're coming from! If we allow ourselves to be blinded by past successes and acclaim then KJ can NEVER do a lousy job! Did you listen to this junk? I'm not denying that he hAS been capable of great things. I'm saying THIS is junk, whether it's by Jarrett or by any great musician you can name. Charisma is NOT ART! Junk is not art! This is junk! Listen to it again!
JHJennings 1 year ago
@gnulinger has nothing to do with like/dislike. Jarrett disrespected a genius with his own primitive BS and stole the melody in the process. It's junk and far removed from "genius". His silly attempts to act like it has some sort of deep meaning are an insult to ALL artists, not just George Gershwin. I love jazz and great new inventions that celebrate the genius of others. This isn't it. I am continually annoyed at people like Jarrett when they do this.
JHJennings 1 year ago
I don't agree! This is a kind of theft and I refuse to appreciate it. Gershwin wrote his melody and delivered it with his own lush harmonies. Jarrett TAKES the melody, makes it his own and ignores any semblance of Gershwin's harmony. Jarrett's replacement harmony is POOR, NOTHING. It's not great, it's not jazz, it's not even adequate. It's junk! This is NOT art. This is robbery.. I resent it.!
JHJennings 1 year ago
@JHJennings If Gershwin is still alive he would be amazed in this recording.There's something that you lack being a musician, its called "perception".Music legends such as Gershwin has it and you dont.But dont worry someday you'll realize how great this recording is :-P
livekillers 1 year ago
I don't agree. This is a kind of theft and I won't appreciate it. Gershwin built a song from a stark melody but also added lush jazz harmonies that set the song into the American landscape. Jarrett strips out the harmony, adds his own barren and ill-fitted intervals and calls it art. It's NOT art. It's NOT jazz. It's junk!
JHJennings 1 year ago
Dynamics and pure touch says it all for Keith. He's got it all. Gershwin is smiling in the heavens.
partidoalto1 1 year ago
An amazing rendition of a gorgeous song by Gerswhin. That's what happens when a genius recreates music from another genius...
bontempo01 1 year ago
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this is not music, it's the heaven...
emy1968 1 year ago
maravilla Es una, es El Alma de sueño de las Naciones Unidas !
lesatz4 1 year ago
ineffable
tongoism 1 year ago
deep in the soul with bill evans, high in the sky with keith jarrett.
maccbetto 1 year ago 45
@maccbetto that's it !
KEEPTHEDEEP 1 year ago
@maccbetto to the depth and breadth and height the soul can reach (to borrow from a famous poetess). When I watch this, time has to stop, the cares of the day have to be parked and all my power to focus has to be on the moment. I must because, you see, I am spending a few moments with a musical genius of unfathomable proportions. One must be quiet ..... and just listen to these heavenly sounds.
upquist1 1 year ago
if there was ever a musician who was one with his music. its keith jarrett. nuff said
WazaKaiSprout 1 year ago
Jazz's Glenn Gould...
ACVB2006 1 year ago 2
@ACVB2006 Although Gould was pretty jazz himself...
BoxOfFrogbit 1 year ago
gratulację!
grzegorz19plonka 1 year ago
the best in the world of jazz music......
zipronovic 1 year ago
What a sophisticated lyrical melody and harmony !
MPRTT2008 1 year ago
Here are the true music lovers, I just heard one person coughing in the audience ; Sviatoslav Richter and other classicals would have greatly appreciated being listened that well ! Damn lucky jazz players.
WAMEDJO 1 year ago
Cito Bollani: "Quando Gesù sentì Jarret suonare il piano disse: che fa mio padre....suona il piano ora?..."
minaobodo 1 year ago
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flabc5 1 year ago
@minaobodo In che occasione lo ha detto?
flabc5 1 year ago
@flabc5 era un'intervista che ho visto in tv qualche tempo fa. sinceramente non ricordo una particolare occasione, perchè?
minaobodo 1 year ago
@minaobodo Perchè mi piace tantissimo ascoltare i grandi musicisti che parlano di musica :)
flabc5 1 year ago
Oh, so very fine!
doothless 1 year ago
It's so beautifull to see all his emotions while he's playing.. his love and hate for the piano.. he truly embodies his music. It can't get anymore real than this for me. An ode to what man is capable doing.. not only musically but spiritually as well..
erwinpronk 1 year ago
You can hear the Bill Evans inspiration in his playing...magnifique!!
daraze99 1 year ago
You know what... I think this is the definitive version of this song.
sugarkang 1 year ago
beautiful rendition.
sugarkang 1 year ago 2
talk about raw emotion
crazytrain1889 1 year ago 2
Tulio,ho la sensazione che quando seuto keith Jarret che la chive sono un'estensione dell'anima dell'uomo, è superbo
mauriciolaurino 1 year ago
@mauriciolaurino Assoultmente la veritá.
Rvlouie 1 year ago
I've been playing piano for 33 years, and I know of no better player that Keith.
peterkau1 1 year ago
...Other excellent pianists are almost rigid - Bill Evans used to keep his head down all the time. To suggest that all these other musicians somehow lack something Jarrett has because they don't respond physically like he does - because he can't control his emotional responses to the music - is ridiculous. The mannerisms are at best unneccesary and at worst make him very difficult to listen to, especially on some of the Standards vol 1 & 2 tracks. It's a shame because he's otherwise fantastic!
eAcetaldehyd 1 year ago
It's unfortunate for you that you let Keith's mannerisms get in the way-his breadth of musical knowledge and feel for it all in the moment is second to none. If you don't like it great-but don't waste your breath judging it with empty phrases like 'at best unnecessary'. Try a dose of humility-read his biography and see him live. You'll probably think differently.
sdluthier 1 year ago
@sdluthier I'm actually quite a big fan of Jarrett - did you read both my posts? I just don't think that the odd noises add anything (the dancing I can put up with). I'm just objecting to the people suggesting that his mannerisms are evidence of some deep musical intuition lacking in all the pianists who don't behave like that. Are you suggesting that less eccentric pianists e.g. Evans are inferior because they don't/didn't react as KJ does?
eAcetaldehyd 1 year ago
@eAcetaldehyd its all about becoming possessed by the music. It wasn't Hendrix's style for example to sit still on a chair ;)
zezt 1 year ago
@eAcetaldehyd I agree that there is what one hears (simply love Jarrett's music-making!) and what one sees (I have an easier time enjoying it when I'm not watching), and that people pay too much attention to what they see - it's the reason some call Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's play "unfeeling", "emotionally detached" or "cold", when in reality, his playing could be frighteningly mechanical one day, and white-hot the next, only that his movements (and his behavior) were invariably economical.
LeonFleisherFan 1 year ago
@eAcetaldehyd I'm sure KJ is misunderstood if we think he "can't control his emotional responses to the music". His bodylanguage may seem ridiculous to somebody, but it's nothing he would like to stop it if he could. I think it's a kind of "kamikaze"-mentality, which means to give himself totally to the music. In opposite to you I love to see this.
FrancescoGuardi 1 year ago
Wonderful!
Re: the mannerisms, he's actually pretty well behaved here compared to elsewhere. At least he's quiet here!
I don't think his actions are contrived or deliberate, but similarly I don't think they're caused by any kind of superior "feel" for the music or other such thing. I know of no other pianist (or any other musician for that matter) in any genre who goes to such extremes - Oscar Peterson and Glenn Gould occasionally made noises but nothing on KJ's level...
eAcetaldehyd 1 year ago
There is nobody who can get more out of a song then keith. He is music at its purest and highest level.
jaybou263 1 year ago
bill evans all of the life!!!!he's immortal!!!!
eliothesun 1 year ago
I adored Bill Evans and have to agree with one of the other commentators that Keith seems to have eclipsed him in at least some ways. I can't think of one artist without thinking of the other, however. I love them both! This is one of Keith's best.
chopinlover49 1 year ago
Increíble.
Gyorgyligeti1986 1 year ago
beautiful !
ritious7paranya 1 year ago
One word...perfect
jazzevans 2 years ago
I just love this one...
catap21 2 years ago
Kocham...!!!
izolda571 2 years ago
Communicating through art ... well done
seaurchin2008 2 years ago
And I agree that the Jarrett "sounds effects" are supremely vexing. Just curious as to the veracity of the rumor that the German producer of that album, during the studio recording, chained Jarrett to the piano bench by the waist, and put in a locking ball gag on his mouth. LOL!!!
toplawoffice 2 years ago 2
Thanks for replying, Rockintetster my man. I didn't mean to compare: as a jazz lover, I enjoy and admire both. And you are right in saying that Jarrett's technical proficiency has surpassed Evans', who died too early. In addition, Jarrett's lyrical proficiency is unequalled; one only has to listen to "The Melody At Night, With You" (ECM, 1999) to know this. That album mercifully contains no grunts and groans, and is an example of Jarrett at his lyrical best.
toplawoffice 2 years ago 2
.. the master !
:-)
doublearejazz 2 years ago
...questa musica respira
pellemanu 2 years ago
Rockintetster, you are so spot-on. But there's no gainsaying that Jarett is a great talent. However, Evans is the prime source of all who came after, whether they admit it or not.
toplawoffice 2 years ago
No denying the fact the Evans is absolutely the most influential jazz pianist- probably of all time. I feel the at this point in his career, Jaret has long surpassed Evans's technical abilities and repertoire. Evans never had the guts to record all of the classical music that Jarrett has- Evans died too young! I just wish Jarrett would shut the F*** up once in a while- he's so damned annoying! URRRRRGH!
rockintetster 2 years ago 2
Jarrett is a brilliant pianist. He's a brilliant improviser. All musicians "feel" and "animate" their music. Jarrett does it on a level, which becomes irritating, offensive and downright ugly after a while. He has ruined many of his live shows and recordings with his "vocal accompaniment" I get so much more satisfaction listening to Bill Evans than this guy, even though Jarrett is easily four times the pianist Evans ever was.
rockintetster 2 years ago 2
he is what he is....best living interpreter of the american songbook
rasjvon 2 years ago 27
@rasjvon So True!!!
2spinn 1 year ago
i love his music...love listening to it alot...but watching him isnt great...its too much...but he does fekl his music though
AleksMichel 2 years ago
I love this sigh by 3:28 :)))
gwozdezzz 2 years ago 3
This is absolutely heartbreaking...
So many memories...
True poetry, thank you!
gwozdezzz 2 years ago
a fucking god.
earthchild100 2 years ago 9
He is makin shapes cus he's feelin it.
NoMus1cNoLife 2 years ago
Keith is not contrived... he is real and driven by his spirit. Let that criticism go and you have found a way to listen to one of the greatest improvisers of our time.
holyburn 2 years ago
Since when has it been news that Keith Jarrett looks ridiculous when he plays.... ever seen him with Miles at Isle of Wight?.. fucking hilarious. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just how he does things, and the moment people out there post a solo like this sitting down is when I'll let them judge Keith Jarrett's "antics".
MilesTrane21 2 years ago
c'mon, Keith, don't just stand up - kick the piano stool away and do a handstand on the keyboard like Elton John!!!
manwithnoname123 2 years ago 2
I can't help but cringe when he stands up at 2.52. It's painfully contrived. There are many great musicians who did not give in to pretentious and affected display - Chopin and Rachmaninov being prime examples. I don't think anyone can claim that these two lacked 'intensity' or did not fully understand the music they played.
Bergunthera 2 years ago
EVERYONE feels the music different ! I personaly dont understand how can someone criticise Keith Jarrett ....you certantly did not got the point of music ...sorry
donoso96 2 years ago
If you don't understand how, then you're not looking at him. Whether you mind it or not is a different matter, as it happens completely unrelated to whether or not you get 'the point of the music' as you so pretentiously put it.
What IS the point of the music?
Bergunthera 2 years ago
Standing up or not. Doesn't look healthy at all what he does. Don't like to watch his hands, neck...
corcov 2 years ago
@corcov you know, I had the same problem... but ... Keith Jarrett is, like all great artist, a unit, one piece of art. And sometimes you have just to get used to it... I really feel with him... after watching Tokyo Solo and stuff...
gwozdezzz 2 years ago
@Bergunthera why the hell does it matter, if you turned off your monitor when you listened to it..... the music sounds just as beautiful
earthchild100 2 years ago
Cette musique de Keith vous entraine dans un autre monde , plus calme, plus serein. Etre à l'écoute ! C'est maginfique tout simplement!
elmenocchio 2 years ago
There are no antics....this 100% pure, if you don't believe so close your eyes and just listen.
mahaoj 2 years ago
He has such a beautiful piano sound.
Pianojanna 2 years ago
sheer brilliance
thirdstream 2 years ago
OMGosh.....he wore sneakers at his own concert!!!!
freeqwerqwer 2 years ago
I respectfully but firmly re-iterate my point about artistic intensity and caricature. The antics are a distraction, and I have a suspicion that they are more than a little contrived - like Liberace's sequins, fine pianist though he was.
The claims here that such displays are somehow evidence of particular talent are mystifying.
hhelpmaboab 2 years ago
I think I'd also find his antics a distraction if I was watching him live, but I honestly don't think they're contrived. Possibly, he moves in order to aid the music (as opposed to the music leading him) but regardless, it is sublime. It's not as if it's shallow music and he's trying to distract us. Surely, when your art is of that kind of quality, that justifies any strange behaviour.
Shazbut01 2 years ago 2
Also, I find that listening to his solo work especially, like his recording of "Starbright", there is incredible tension in there. You can almost feel emotion pulling at it, as if it's dying to break free, and he doesn't let it and the effect is very powerful. He's so concentrated. Listen as deep as you can, the music is so precise. I think if I could play like that, I'd probably find myself moving like he does.
Shazbut01 2 years ago 2
Dude, he's feeling the music! Great musicians can't help but move, it's when you know that what you're playing is coming from inside you, it's something that makes you show where the music is coming from, in today's music it's so hard to find someone who shows they feel it. Any well-trained musician can sit at a piano and play a symphony to perfection... but it takes a genius to be able to not only play that music but feel it... through their heart and and in their bones, it's not made, its born
bradk2108 2 years ago
Yes! You speak the truth bro' - thanks!
bootsie4u 2 years ago
Jarrett is doing nothing new here he has always played with the same intensity, It's probably what makes him stand out amongst the crowd. If you are uncomfortable with it for whatever reason looking at him play, just listen to him and apprieciate the brilliance
fluidjazz 2 years ago 2
you probably have never improvised. If you allow the music to come through to you, it's impossible not to make a sound, when the music comes through you.
cartbaby 2 years ago
One of my favourite song played by one of my favourite pianist!!! =) I LOVE THIS SONG!
Pianodrum95 2 years ago
I don't think any of Keith Jarrett's performances cross a line into "caricature." Watch his documentary, he is a genuinely and naturally intense person. If I had to watch anyone's performance on piano, it would be his. He is a beautiful musician.
kayem0 2 years ago 3
Yes he's a pure artist.
JLorz84 2 years ago
I'll continue listening, but won't be watching the performance. It strays close to the line between artistic intensity and caricature
hhelpmaboab 2 years ago
YOu stray close to the line between the most stupid person and the person with the worst taste...
donoso96 2 years ago
the best keith :*
lashalashalashalaaas 2 years ago
A rare expressive quality,
SYNTHPAINTANN 2 years ago
At the moment.... the music impersonified
GUARDONISSIMO1 2 years ago
listen this music and be silent...don't need words
falguido 2 years ago 20
but when i watch the video i cant help to see your comment stop posting them then!
....crap
LulJam 2 years ago
@falguido nice example of irony, thanks.
LulJam 1 year ago 3
This is the only version of this song that I've heard that does justice to the emotion. It is one of the most powerful songs I know and yet you always hear it as some sort of jazz/lounge thing. Read the lyrics. You can't play this without it coming from the earth, and this performance, aside from being musically flawless (the harmony blows my mind) is an example of just that.
Shazbut01 2 years ago 7
I could not agree more. This performance transcends me to another place.
jazzevans 2 years ago
this guys speaking italian
gealoa 2 years ago